I visited the house today that I used to live in between the ages of 16-18. (It was around here if you really want to be nosey). It used to be at the end of a cul-de-sac, but now the road has been extended, and there are a whole load of new houses there.

BBC Breakfast ran a feature on broadband this morning which suggested that your broadband enabled PC could be hacked into, even when it was turned off at the wall. Does anyone out there not have broadband now anyway? I can’t think of anyone I know who is still on dialup. (And the whole of Iceland is completely wired up, it would seem)

And finally … it’s really annoying when doing a ‘ten things’ lists, and you can only think of nine things. Does anyone else know something that I’ve learnt today that I could have put here?

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Geoff, I’ve heard some very dubious things about Spinrite these days. I remember on old drives on my 386 it was good, but apparently it does little to modern disks.
Could be just a flame between two people but this guy makes sense:http://grcsucks.com/spinrite.htm

I’ve never trusted “journos” and never will, so it doesn’t supprise me about the Breakfast report.

As for Gatwick, thats what the train is for, even if you just park one stop up the line and buy a £2.50(?) train ticket. Right into the heart of the airport. Personally I go the whole way by train/tube but then I don’t have a card.

Following Ian’s line and having seen the response Ian got I couldn’t resist sending a NewsWatch submittion. Luckly I remember that the BBC are committed to getting the facts right and they are also committed to responding to my concerns.

I put a nice little ending on my sternly corrective email:
“Please, next time you think about writing a story like that, go and see the nice guys upstairs in News IT support. They work long hours and (currently) don’t work for SBS. FYI, I don’t work at the BBC anymore.”

I hate/loath/despise Doctor Who, always have, and could never see what the fuss was about. Then they brought out the new Doctor Who that has Billie Piper(who i hate more than Doctor Who) and that annoying guy from 28 days later. So to much suprise i actually watched the episode on tonight, and besides the annoyance of billie piper and that new doctor, it was ok(just)..though i still cant see what all the fuss was about, and probably will never watch again

Yeah, the public holidays over here in the States are weird. It makes the bank holidays in the UK make a lot more sense.

The Good Friday and Easter Monday ones tend to be of the “separation of church and state” cloth. However, as most shops are open on Sundays, there are some states where Easter Sunday closes more things than others.

We also don’t get Boxing Day.

Then again, the “very American” Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday, which is inconvenient if you can’t get “Black Friday” off as well.

Presidents Day has completely replaced the separate celebrations of the birthdays of George Washington and Abe Lincoln.

Martin Luther King Day was only recently recognized in all 50 states (Arizona being a holdout, and Utah refusing to name the day after MLK until a few years ago), and it’s seldom treated as a day off, save for government employees and schools.

Columbus Day is seldom a day off for anybody, and is more often an excuse for sales at retail shops. Also, Columbus isn’t held in as high esteem as he once was, given the way he and his party treated the natives.

Who is this ‘Arsenvank’ a German football manager perhaps?
I was in Auckland over Easter, and hardly any shops were open either G.Friday or
E.Sunday, it was just like ‘the old days’ in Britain when people stockpiled about 3
months of food, ‘cos the shops were going to be closed for 2 whole days.
Those that did open, mostly small shops and cafes have the right apparently to charge you 5%
more, as they have to pay their staff extra pay on those days.

Of course hardly any shops were open in NZ (Auckland) over Easter, New Zealander’s have some sense of loyalty that these days are public holidays, and retail workers are members of the public too! This past easter was my first easter in the UK and I was shocked that all the shops were open.